The country’s already struggling stock market has not been spared the impact of deadly coronavirus pandemic as a report by Databank Research shows that significant value has been wiped off the market once the first case was recorded in March. The report, which analyses the economy for the first quarter,...
The price of imported fresh tomatoes has sharply increased, as traders now have to travel up north to neighbouring Burkina Faso to buy fresh tomatoes for sale on the local market. This perennial shortage of the vegetable and reliance on Ghana’s northern neighbour to meet local demand for the commodity...
Volta Regional Minister, Dr Archibald Letsa has underscored the need for government agencies to take advantage of the resource provided by the District League Table (DLT) to help develop their districts and give their citizens a better life. Rather than seeing the DLT study as a tool to name and...
The results from the 2017 District league table (DLT) is to be brought to the regional level in a series of launches in the month of March, 2018. The regional dissemination would this year be modified to serve as a learning platform to enable struggling districts learn from the best...
The decline in headline inflation for January to 10.3 percent is likely to push the central bank to continue its reduction in the monetary policy rate, Barclays Africa has said. According to a release by the research arm of the bank, “the deceleration in inflation will have been positively received...
Ghana’s efforts to drive new growth by stepping up industrialisation across rural areas, increasing oil production and boosting agricultural output are explored in a country report just produced by the global research and consultancy firm Oxford Business Group (OBG). The Report: Ghana 2018 charts the progress of new offshore...
Government intends to use its revenue and expenditure measures in the 2018 budget to continue to stabilise the economy, offer reliefs to make the private sector competitive and create more employment. But without the needed revenues, these objectives will not be realised. Funding for most of government’s developmental projects is...
A lot has been said about unemployment among university graduates, but the real unemployment headache lies below the university level, the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER), has said, expressing surprise that government’s main focus is on university graduates. In its review of the 2018 budget, the institute...
In spite of the vast opportunities available in the upstream oil and gas sector, local participation is very low due to high barriers of entry, a report by Ernst & Young (EY), Ghana, indicates. The report shows that local participation in areas like well drilling, engineering services, exploration and subsurface,...